| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In any contemporary theories of mind the explanation of mind has to refer to the body as a counterpart in the unity of person. This is a rather trivial point, but the concept of mind itself and its relation to the body are in need of clarification.
In this project I have examined and argued for the relevance of Aristotle's concept of 'energeia' to those problems of contemporary philosophy of mind.
(1) Aristotle formally defines the mind as the form of body, and says that its relation to the body is as of the relation of energeia-dynamis. Unfortunately, Aristotle does not explain this relation definitely. So some scholars argue that the energia-dynamis relation is simply another expression of the form-matter relation, i.e. it shows no advances of the explanation. Against this kind of interpretation I have argued that this relation directs our research-programs to a materialist-like program and is not a trivial one.
(2) At the same time, however, I have to admit that there is a severe tension between materialism and teleology in the explanation of Aristotle's theory of mind because of the priority of energeia to dynamis.
(3) So I have suggested the idea of the evolution without history, i.e. the evolution embedded in the 'hexis', and tried to develop it in my interpretation of his theory of sense-perception and cosmology.
(4) As a result of this project, it becomes clear that the importance and of 'agathos' in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, so I have applied for the next-term Grant-in Aid for SR.
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